Aura CE (Community Edition)
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Aura is an open-source MMORPG server software.
It's solely being developed for educational purposes, learning about programming, MMORPGs,
maintaining huge projects, working with other people, and improving knowledge.
It's not about playing a game or competing with any services provided by
Nexon or its partners, and we don't endorse such actions.

Aura is completely free and licensed under the GNU GPL.
As such, every user is free to use Aura and choose how to use it,
in the context of its license.

Compatibility
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This version of Aura was originally compatible with version 243 of the North American client, from January 2017.
Currently this is still the case for the master branch, but you can check out the compatibility branch, for experimental support of the latest NA client.

Requirements
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To *run* Aura, you need
* .NET 4.5 (Mono 3.2.7 or above)
* MySQL 5 compatible database

To *compile* Aura, you need
* C# 5 compiler, such as:
  * [Visual Studio](http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-express-vs.aspx) (2012 or later)
  * [Monodevelop](http://monodevelop.com/) (With Mono version 3.2.7 or greater)
  * [SharpDevelop](http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/) (Version 4.4 or greater)

Getting Started
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* Compile Aura
* Run `sql/main.sql` to setup the database
* Copy `system/conf/database.conf` to `user/conf/`,
  adjust the necessary values and remove the rest.

Afterwards, you should be able to start Aura via the provided scripts or
directly from the bin directories.
